Quotes from Janet Evanovich

Sometimes it's hard to tell what's love and what's only indigestion

What I realized halfway through writing romance is that you start out intuitive, and you make all these choices mostly based on yourself and what you like and what talent you have, and... if you want to have any quality control over your product, you have to stop being intuitive and start being more of an analyst.

The 'Stephanie Plums' are very much Jersey books. So you can't get away from attitude and objectionable language.

What I do miss is the Jersey Shore.

I actually really suck at naming books, so lots of years ago, readers were sending in their ideas for titles, and what we realized is that they were smarter than us. So we thought, Hey, go for it. So now we have a contest every year.

Kate O'Hare is a former SEAL and is currently in the FBI - we know that there are no women in the SEALs, but we think there should be.

'Troublemaker' is not an adaptation of 'Metro Girl' or 'Motor Mouth.' It is an original story. The hardest part was probably trying to keep the sound true to the novels. I always write in first person, and it was important to us that the readers of 'Metro' and 'Motor' be comfortable with the change over to a graphic novel.

I like my nuts," Mooner said. "I don't want them cut off. I'd be, like, nutless then.

Ranger Smiled. 'You want me to be Superman? Spend the night with me.

There are some men who enter a woman's life and screw it up forever.

I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book.

Transitions are critically important. I want the reader to turn the page without thinking she's turning the page. It must flow seamlessly.

Turns out, that's how it is with weddings. You just keep getting in deeper and deeper until you want to throw up.

I've finally reached a stage in my career where I can do what I want.

I had an alarm, I had nerve gas, I had a yogurt. What more could anyone want?

Just because i know how to change a guys oil doesn't mean i want to spend the rest of my life on my back, staring up his undercarriage.

I write to entertain. When people read one of my books I want them to finish with a smile on their faces, feeling a little bit better about themselves and the people in their lives.

I want to see your tailpipe fading off into the sunset." Good luck, I thought. My tailpipe was somewhere on Route 1, along with my muffler.

Pete- What does a woman want out of marriage? Louisa- Undying devotion and a warm place to put her cold feet when she gets into bed at night.

I'm done with men. I have a hamster. That's all I need.

Only men you can count on these days are Ben and Jerry.

We're comic book fans; we're huge NASCAR fans.

I struggled to learn basic skills, get a grip on markets, find my own unique voice, create story lines and come up to speed with the industry. I struggled for ten years before having any success.

It's the twenty-first century." I told Tank. "Women drive." "Only in my bed," Tank said. "Never in my car.